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10/31/2013 9:21AM

Watchdog: Syria Destroys Chemical-Arms Equipment

Syria has completed the destruction of its chemical weapons production equipment, according to an international disarmament agency, bringing an end to the first phase of eliminating the country's chemical weapons. Naftali Bendavid reports. Photo: Getty Images.

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... the the ... overnight developments in the Middle East Syria has destroyed its critical chemical weapons equipment that's according to a major war still organize action ... inspectors say they completed ... their inspection of twenty three off twenty one of twenty three sites will Street dolls that masks Holly Bendavid has been watching him as an e joins us from Brussels with Andrea's ... Nast's Holly ... of this seems to be a pretty big deal ... the Hunter percent compliance basically ... well I think it is something of returning to the whole plane produced arming Syrian ... involve getting rid of its ability to make new chemical weapons first and then you turn to the existing stockpile of about a thousand metric tons ... or phase one has according to the Organization for the provision of chemical weapons ... in accomplish it is to sail all the KPN clinic that was used to manufacture ... to fill the mix ... Syrian so-called destroyed backed up according to this latest report ... now that this was based on this area is a self assessment on when and where the sites while so they say they said ok here are twenty three sites to or abandons ... and they didn't then that's what they disclose so it is possible ... has meant that the of the undisclosed sites ... yet I mean if we wanted to express some skepticism that would be a Syria gets to what they called declarer its chemical weapons program which is to say to the listed sites the locations stockpiles how much is in every place ... and then it's actually the international inspectors have to rely on that ... so it's possible theoretically at least that the Syrians one in hindsight they could be doing that ... the leopard house to be sad that there are mechanisms for other people to bring science to the attention of inspector should they find them ... I and the belief that up on the part of the Inspector's is that the series have been more or less playing ball and they say that there's a geopolitical reasons why they would want to ... and that there are a lot of good reasons necessarily my ... residence on twenty hiding something will the feeling most of its programs so ... they seem to have a reasonably high degree of confidence ... that theory is that this one kW operating in the harness but he does have to be sent to their assessments of their progress is reliant on series of disclosure ... that will be what happens in the days and weeks